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Josef Högl founded his company with a lot of pioneering spirit and zest for action, which - grown over 80 years and generations -
inspires the women's world with high-quality and fashionable women's shoes.
As the number of products that has to be import from Akeneo will be manageable, Pimgento will be used in this case, especially as
it promised to work Out-of-the-Box, what finally was NOT true, as we figured out during the project. Beside the transformation
of the import files provided by the AS400 system, the customer and the customer address import has been the main callenges when
building the Unified-Commerce-Platform for Högl.

Challenge

The files provided by the AS400 doesn't have default CSV format and encoding. They need to be converted extracted into the
different import entities and encoded in UTF-8 format. As many import entities has to be serviced EIP has to take care that
the conversion and import processes will be streamlined and doesn't conflict with each other.

Solution

EIP comes with a set of libraries that provides the functionality to convert several import formats into the default CSV
formats that will be supported by EIP. During conversion, the more or less general files from the AS400 system will be
extracted into files containing the data in the expected CSV formats for the target entities. The conversion itself
has been realized as M2IF libraries, can be configured by the M2IF workflow engine and finally has been integrated as
separated step of the import process invoked and protected by the process pipelines.

Result

Alle the conversion and import processes has been streamlined whereas the process pipelines, that are part of EIP,
take care that the conversion and import processes doesn't results in deadlocks or data inconsistency.
The processed can be monitored within the Magento backend and will fully transparent for the customer as well as
the solution partner that maintains the Unified-Commerce-Plattform.